when you take a look at the attached picture you see the whole screen is filled withthe file association search result, it's window is not re-sizable, is it possible to change this ?Working on several windows to check and solve problems on a single screen is almost impossible !

Also, as you see on the picture there are almost 800 files to check and i have no option to remove 1 file when it's ready.I cannot uncheck all files at once and have to re-scan after every file that i corrected.

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(cool) Hector [ Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:28 pm ]

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Re: looking for file associations

This report lists all the files that don't exist on your disk anymore, and helps you to get rid of those broken associations. Why do you want to remove only a few broken associations instead of them all?

By the way, if you want to remove file associations one by one, you can go to the movie and click the "DEL" button from the owned videos box.

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(cool) Hector [ Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:31 pm ]

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Skinamp wrote:

as you see on the picture there are almost 800 files to check

Why do you have so many files missing? Did you move a folder to another location? If that's the case, you can transform the old location into the new location with the menu "Tools->Manage your video files->Batch edit several file associations".

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Skinamp [ Tue Jan 03, 2017 12:15 am ]

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Re: looking for file associations

I bought an 16Tb NAS and move a lot of movies to it....Moving movies from different HDD's. At the same time i check everymovie for plot, label, imdb shortcut, doubles, poster and if it's really themovie its supposed to be

Scanning the drives/nas after everything is ready is NOT an option, howcan i see if a movie exists at two or more locaions with an empty database ?

It`s an action that takes weeks.... and i have always been affraidto use "automatic" cleaners. Whiping 800 entries at one time soundsnice but what if i or the program makes an mistake ?

I'm not sure about this program feature.

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(cool) Hector [ Tue Jan 03, 2017 1:07 am ]

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Skinamp wrote:

I bought an 16Tb NAS and move a lot of movies to it....

That explains everything... And you're not doing the right thing!

When you move the folder "\\QSKINNAS\Films" to "\\BIGGERNAS\Films", the file associations become broken. All you have to do is use the menu "Tools->Manage your video files->Batch edit several file associations" to replace the string "\\QSKINNAS\Films" by "\\BIGGERNAS\Films". And voila! Everything fixed. No need to scan again.

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Skinamp [ Tue Jan 03, 2017 1:41 am ]

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Hmmm....

does it find the movies that where moved from external drive to naseven if this drive is no longer attached ?Does this option show me the doubles ?Does it see if i replaced an old .avi with an .mkv or VIDEO_TS with .mkv ?

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(cool) Hector [ Tue Jan 03, 2017 1:56 am ]

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Skinamp wrote:

does it find the movies that where moved from external drive to nas even if this drive is no longer attached ?

The edit tool finds nothing. It just edits all the file locations, replacing one string with another. Since you've moved from external drive to nas, you should easily determine what string to replace. When it's done, you can use the association checking tool to control that everything went fine. This method should be much faster than what you did.

Skinamp wrote:

Does this option show me the doubles ?

We don't have any method that shows doubles. Only by going to a movie you can see in the owned videos box if you own more than 1 file. But it's not necessarily a duplicate. In the case of series, it's normal to have more than 1 file. Also, you could have a file with the trailer of the movie.

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(cool) Hector [ Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:01 am ]

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Skinamp wrote:

Does it see if i replaced an old .avi with an .mkv or VIDEO_TS with .mkv ?

When you do that, the normal process is to scan again and to delete the broken associations.

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Skinamp [ Wed Jan 04, 2017 4:06 pm ]

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Hi Hector,

the broken file associations worked fine.... thanx for the tip !

Batch rename location is not possible for the moved files, lets say ihave 6 drives containing movies, i now move all moviesyear 2014 from those drives to NAS f.e. 50 from each drive.

When i batch rename the location, the movies that stay behind on the6 drives are no longer correct. Leaving me in scanning them again !

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(cool) Hector [ Wed Jan 04, 2017 4:32 pm ]

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I thought you were moving entire folders. It's up to you to decide what to do next. Either you scan again, either you move some more files to the NAS...

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Skinamp [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:32 pm ]

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Re: looking for file associations

Always connected are 2 nas drives, but there are other drives containing movies that arenot always connected to the network.

When i use the scan for missing file associations, those movies are removed also.

Is it possible to exclude those drive locations from scanning ?

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(cool) Hector [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:40 pm ]

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Re: looking for file associations

Your situation is a nightmare

It's so complex, I don't know what to do

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(cool) Hector [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:47 pm ]

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Re: looking for file associations

Skinamp wrote:

when you take a look at the attached picture you see the whole screen is filled withthe file association search result, it's window is not re-sizable, is it possible to change this ?

I just checked and it's re-sizable. You just grab the bottom right corner.

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(cool) Hector [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:59 pm ]

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Re: looking for file associations

I'm starting to see the solution...

When files are missing from more than 1 drive, the program should display a message saying;

C: 56 missing filesZ: 12 missing files

Then you have to select which drive you want to see the list of missing files.

I think it would solve all your problems, wouldn't it?

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Skinamp [ Sun Jan 08, 2017 4:38 pm ]

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(cool) Hector wrote:

I just checked and it's re-sizable. You just grab the bottom right corner.